Espionage from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution
Ancient Espionage
- Austin, Stephen, and N.B. Rankov. Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople. London: Routledge, 1995.
- Chakraborty, Gayatri. Espionage in Ancient India: From the Earliest Times to 12th Century A.D. Calcutta, India: Minerva Associates, 1990.
- Dvornik, Francis. Origins of Intelligence Services: The Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Arab Muslim Empires, the Mongol Empire, China, Muscovy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
- Gerolymatos, Andre. Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence Gathering in Ancient Greece. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1986.
- Russell, Frank S. Information Gathering in Ancient Greece. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- Sheldon, Rose Mary. Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages. Jefferson, NC:McFarland & Co., 2002.
- Sun Tzu. tr., Samuel B. Griffith. The Art of War. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Espionage in Early Modern Europe
- Archer, John Michael. Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
- Budiansky, Stephen. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
- Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. London: Sutton, 1992. New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
- Hugh, Douglas. Jacobite Spy War: Moles, Rogues and Treachery. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999.
- Kates, Gary. Monsieur d'Eon Is A Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
- Marshall, Alan. Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Plowden, Alison. The Elizabethan Secret Service. [UK]: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
- Thompson, James Westfall, and Saul K. Padover. Secret Diplomacy; Espionage and Cryptography, 1500-1815. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1963.
Espionage during the American Revolution
- Bakeless, Katherine and John Bakeless. Spies of the Revolution. Scholastic Book Services, 1962.
- Baker, General L.C. History of the Secret Service. General L.C. Baker, 1867.
- Brandt, Clare. The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold. Random House, Inc., 1994.
- Currey, Cecil B. Code Number 72/ Ben Franklin: Patriot or Spy?. Prentice-Hall Inc., 1972.
- Flexner, James Thomas. The Traitor & the Spy: Benedict Arnold & John Andre. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1953.
- Morpurgo, J.E. Treason at West Point: the Arnold-Andre Conspiracy. Mason/Charter, 1975.
- Thompson, Edmund R. Secret New England: Spies of the American Revolution. David Atlee Phillips New England Chapter Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1991.
- See also Spy Letters of the Revolution, from the Collections of the Clements Library: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-about.html.
Espionage during the Civil War
- Axelrod, Alan. The War Between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the American Civil War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.
- Bakeless, John. Spies of the Confederacy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.
- Bakeless, Katherine (Little), and John Bakeless. Confederate Spy Stories. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973.
- Christen, William J. Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland. Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 2006.
- Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
- Kane, Harnett. Spies for the Maroon and Gray. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1954.
- Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spy Masters of the Civil War. New York: Hippocrene, 1994.
- Stern, Philip Van Doren. Secret Missions of the Civil War: First-Hand Accounts by Men and Women Who Risked Their Lives in Underground Activities for the North and South. Chicago: Rand MacNally. 1959.
The Dreyfus Affair
- Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus, translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman. Birmingham, AL: Notable Trials Library, 1989.
- Derfler, Leslie. The Dreyfus Affair. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Hoffman, Robert Louis. More Than A Trial: The Struggle Over Captain Dreyfus. New York: Free Press, 1980.
- Lewis, David L. Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair. New York: Morrow, 1973.
- Zola, Emile. J'Accuse. Paris: Editions Mille et Une Nuits, 1994.
- See also: http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/25.html, http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/guieuj/chronology.htm, and http://www.dreyfuscase.com.
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